Listening with IONE, Author, Director and Performer

IONE is an Kingston, NY author, director and performer whose works include the critically acclaimed memoir, Pride of Family Four Generations of American Women of Color, and Listening in Dreams and This is a Dream!

She is the playwright and director with her creative partner and spouse, Pauline Oliveros of several large theater works including Njinga the Queen King; The Return of a Warrior (premiered at BAM’s Next Wave Festival), The Nubian Word for Flowers; A Phantom Opera, "a deep dream exploration of Nubian Soul and the Colonial Mind," premiered at Roulette Intermedium, NY and the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, the Dance Opera Io and Her and the Trouble with Him, and The Lunar Opera-Deep Listening For tunes. The two performed internationally as a duo (The Horns of Hathor) and currently IONE disseminates Oliveros’ works worldwide. She recently presented The World Wide Tuning Meditation at Carnegie Hall as a part of Claire Chase’s Pauline Oliveros at 90. This two day event included an ensemble performance of The Witness and The Day of Listening (for families with infants and featuring Oliveros’ Adaptive Use Musical Instrument, AUMI.)

She is an Executive Producer of Daniel Weintraub’s seminal film: “Deep Listening; The Story of Pauline Oliveros,” currently showing in selected theaters world-wide. (PaulineOliveros.us)

IONE is the Founding Director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc (MinistryofMaat.org) and Former Artistic Director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. (now The Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer).

IONE serves as mentor and advisor at Center For Deep Listening.

IONE was a member of the Kingston, NY Arts Commission for several years and A member of the Distinguished Mentors Council of Composers Now.

IONE’s recent opera, TOUCH, with composer Karen Power, premiered at Irish National Opera and she is preparing another major work with the same team.